LEADER 06562nam 2200757 a 450 001 9910967309403321 005 20240417232646.0 010 $a9780814337332 010 $a0814337333 035 $a(CKB)2550000000100687 035 $a(EBL)3416466 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000818938 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11447001 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000818938 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10842539 035 $a(PQKB)10086249 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000674572 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12256793 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000674572 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10679756 035 $a(PQKB)11445758 035 $a(OCoLC)794443080 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse19720 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3416466 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10561882 035 $a(OCoLC)923510857 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL31349308 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3416466 035 $a(Perlego)4160435 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000100687 100 $a20011213d2002 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aJourney to a nineteenth-century shtetl $ethe memoirs of Yekhezkel Kotik /$fedited with an introduction and notes by David Assaf ; [translated from the Yiddish by Margaret Birstein] 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aDetroit $cWayne State University Press in cooperation with The Diaspora Research Institute, Tel Aviv University$dc2002 215 $a1 online resource (543 p.) 225 1 $aRaphael Patai series in Jewish folklore and anthropology 300 $aOriginally published in Yiddish in 1913 as Mayne zikhroynes. Translated and published in Hebrew in 1998 as Mah she-ra'iti ... Zikhronotav shel Yekhezkel Kotik. 311 08$a9780814334218 311 08$a0814334210 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [421]-511) and indexes. 327 $a""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""Preface to the English Edition""; ""A Note on the Translation""; ""Abbreviations""; ""Introduction: a???Life as It Wasa???a???Yekhezkel Kotik and His Memoirs""; ""My Memoirs, Yekhezkel Kotik""; ""Instead of an Introduction""; ""Sholem Aleichema???s letter to Yekhezkel Kotik""; ""1. My Town""; ""2. My Grandfather""; ""3. The a???Panica???""; ""4. My Father and His Attraction to Hasidism""; ""5. Yisrael, the Polish Patriot Hasid""; ""6. The Handshake""; ""7. The Scandal with the Assessor""; ""8. My Melamdim""; ""9. The Kidnappers""; ""10. The Great Dispute"" 327 $a""11. My Mothera???s Unhappiness""""12. The Lords""; ""13. Berl-Bendeta???s Life on the Estate""; ""14. How We Celebrated the Holidays""; ""15. The Rebbe Is Dead!""; ""16. The Fate of a Prodigy""; ""17. The Garments of Those Days""; ""18. My First Revolt""; ""19. The Izbica Hasid""; ""20. Marriage Negotiations""; ""21. Liberating the Serfs""; ""22. The Jews after the Polish Rebellion""; ""23. a???Keep in Step!a???""; ""24. The Debate""; ""25. a???Children, Gather the Coins!a???""; ""26. The Impact of the Bible on Me""; ""27. The Cholera Epidemic""; ""28. Grandmothera???s Death"" 327 $a""29. Hasidism and Mitnaggedism""""Appendix A: Yekhezkel Kotik: List of Publications""; ""Appendix B: Selected Bibliography on Yekhezkel Kotik and His Memoirs""; ""Appendix C: Yekhezkel Kotika???s Genealogy""; ""Notes""; ""Works Cited""; ""Glossary""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""P""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""V""; ""Y""; ""Z""; ""Indexes of Names, Places, and Subjects""; ""Indexe of Names""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""V""; ""W"" 327 $a""Y""""Z""; ""Indexe of Places""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""V""; ""W""; ""Y""; ""Z""; ""Indexe of Subjects""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""V""; ""W""; ""Y""; ""Z"" 330 8 $aThe first annotated English edition of a classic early-twentieth-century Yiddish memoir that vividly describes Jewish life in a small Eastern European town. Originally published in Warsaw in 1913, this beautifully written memoir offers a panoramic description of the author's experiences growing up in Kamieniec Litewski, a Polish shtetl connected with many important events in the history of nineteenth-century Eastern European Jewry. Although the way of life portrayed in this memoir has disappeared, the historical, cultural, and folkoric material it contains will be of major interest to historians and general readers alike. Kotik's story is the saga of a wealthy and influential family through four generations. Masterfully interwoven in this tale are colorful vignettes featuring Kotik's family and neighbors, including rabbis and zaddikim, merchants and the poor, hasidim and mitnaggedim, scholars and illiterates, believers and heretics, matchmakers and informers, and teachers and musicians. Stories of personal warmth and despair intermingle with descriptions of the rise and decline of Jewish communal institutions and descriptions or the relationships between Jews, Russian authorities, and Polish lords. Such events as the brutal decrees of Tsar Nicholas I, the abolishment of the Jewish communal board known as the Kahal, and the Polish revolts against Russia are reflected in the lives of these people. The English edition includes a complete translation of the first volume of memoirs and contains notes elucidating terms, names, and customs, as well as bibliographical references to the research literature. 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